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Jeff Kaplan has put more than 5,000 hours into Rust and calls it the best PvP has to offer, but the former Overwatch lead says his next game, The Legend of California, is taking its cues from calmer survival titles and from World of Warcraft rather than Rust's usual chaos.
Jeff Kaplan’s indie studio Kintsugiyama will open a public Steam playtest for its debut game, The Legend of California, next week. The game was shown in a short reveal video and a long developer livestream, and the team says a larger beta is planned for summer before Early Access.
Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan, now leading The Legend of California, joked that true free-to-play success needs an absurd scale and a content factory. His small team plans a different route: unlocks by playing and a simpler approach.
Former Blizzard designer Jeff Kaplan says he fought to make World of Warcraft first-person. He pitched it during a long stream for his new game, and EverQuest was the reason. The idea raises some wild questions about how games might look today.
World of Warcraft almost leaned on EverQuest style grinding. A playtest with non-MMO players made Blizzard realize people wanted a steady stream of quests, and WoW shifted course.
Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan says Reinhardt was his main. The tank's shield, built for six-player teams, let allies shoot through it — a design choice copied by many games since.
Jeff Kaplan's Kintsugiyama is cooking up The Legend of California: a hand-crafted, seed-shifting survival-action game inspired by 19th century vistas. Early alpha drops soon.
Jeff Kaplan says one meeting at Blizzard pushed him out the door after the Overwatch League hype and revenue pressure reached absurd levels.